Wired 14.12: The Secret World of Lonelygirl - The Diigo Meta page

• 28 May 08
  

  Mike Wesch
  • But the fans – raised on the unreality of reality TV and with the role-playing ethos of the Web – seemed to take the revelation in stride.
  • But the fans – raised on the unreality of reality TV and with the role-playing ethos of the Web – seemed to take the revelation in stride.
• 17 Apr 08
  

  jc ice
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  Gail Ramsey
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  Joan Vance
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  Jaclyn Foody
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  Kristin Pucca
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      Kristin Pucca on 2008-04-17

      Wow, even though something is deleted there are still traces of it that can be retrieved and viewed. This is a little bit creepy that this can be done. The internet may not be as safe as it appears. I don't trust it, and reading this is making me trust it less and less.
• 16 Apr 08
  

  Danielle Rabello

  videos

  • It was a medium in its own right.
• 13 Mar 08
  

  butler09
  • ^#17
    "I
    don't want you to ever set foot in another TGI Fridays," he said,
    
    explaining that he'd pay her ^#16
    
    $500
    
    
    a
    week to play Bree full time
    
    . ^#15
    
    In
    
    
    return,
    she had to stay home as much as possible and wear sunglasses and a hat
    
    
    when
    she went out. For Rose, it was a dream come true – she was a working
    
    
    actress.
    She just couldn't tell anyone.
• 

  richar19
  • ^#4
    The
    YouTube community was sucked into the plot and speculated endlessly
    about
    
    
    
    Bree's
    faith. Some thought she was Mormon; others insisted she was a
    Satanist.
    
    
    
    Another
    group tried to figure out where she lived: The leading guess was
    
    
    
    
    somewhere
    in the Midwest. Viewers spent hours Googling the possibilities
    and
    
    
    
    posting
    their results on YouTube.
  • so his father, a marketing executive at an IT company, agreed to invest in the
    newly formed Lonelygirl15 production company. Beckett immediately called Rose
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  • • "I don't want you to ever set foot in another TGI Fridays," he said,
      explaining that he'd pay her ^#14
      $500
      a week to play Bree full time
      . ^#13
      In
      return, she had to stay home as much as possible and wear sunglasses and a hat
      when she went out. For Rose, it was a dream come true – she was a working
      actress. She just couldn't tell anyone.
      

    • but Google cached a copy
• 

  mccrar25

  YouTube revolution

  • Miles, it's time you quit being a doctor," he said. "We just passed 200,000
    views."
• 

  vanamb16
  • hadn't taken them long to figure out, by trial and error, what worked in this new genre. Viewers wanted family and relationship drama mixed with a rich, mysterious backstory that could be explored and debated.
    >
    The YouTube community was sucked into the plot and speculated endlessly about
    >
    Bree's faith. Some thought she was Mormon; others insisted she was a Satanist.
    >
    Another group tried to figure out where she lived: The leading guess was
    >
    somewhere in the Midwest. Viewers spent hours Googling the possibilities and
    >
    posting their results on YouTube.
    >
  • explored
  • 2 more annotations...
  • • (One viewer annotated each item with its SKU number.) Could it be, one fan wondered, that the whole thing was an elaborate ad
    • lucrative career as a surgeon before he started making little videos and posting them online.
• 12 Mar 08
  

  Elizabeth Somer

  youtube

  • Meanwhile, the online celebrity started spilling over into the real world.
    Rose was browsing for a book in Santa Monica after "My Parents Suck …" was
    posted and noticed two girls watching her closely. That night, Amanda received
    an email from a fan: "Hi Bree. My friend and I thought we saw you at the Barnes
    & Noble in Santa Monica, but it couldn't be you, right?"

  • If you want to talk to Jessica Rose, you can go to her MySpace page. If you want
    to keep talking to Bree, use this email."
• 04 Mar 08
  

  winter43
  • MATTHEW FOREMSKI, the 18-year-old son of a Silicon Valley tech reporter, dug up an old version of Rose's MySpace page. She'd deleted it when she became Bree, but Google cached a copy, and Foremski posted the link to his father's blog. Within 48 hours, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and a slew of TV stations ran the story.
• 15 Feb 08
  

  coffma46
  • The good ones are watched again and again, sending a clear message about what works and what doesn't.
    When "My Parents Suck …" broke 500,000 views, Beckett and Flinders realized this wasn't just an experiment or a setup for a film.
• 14 Feb 08
  

  hughes27
  • That couldn't have happened on television. A conventional TV episode airs once at a certain time; even if it's great, it can only serve to attract viewers to future episodes. On YouTube, a video can be streamed at any time.
• 

  maureen
  • The YouTube community was sucked into the plot and speculated endlessly about
    Bree's faith. Some thought she was Mormon; others insisted she was a Satanist.
    Another group tried to figure out where she lived: The leading guess was
    somewhere in the Midwest. Viewers spent hours Googling the possibilities and
    posting their results on YouTube.
  • Fair enough," the fan wrote back, and then went on to tell Bree the latest news
    in his life. To many, it didn't seem to matter whether she was real or not. A
    number of posts appeared on YouTube denouncing the series, but many more
    responded with variations of this simple statement: If you don't like it, don't
    watch.
• 13 Feb 08
  

  meyerb15
  • ithin 48 hours, the video had half a million views.

    • 

      meyerb15 on 2008-02-13

      How did people catch on to watching this video?
• 

  sunflower123
  • It hadn't taken them long to figure out, by trial and error, what worked in this new genre. Viewers wanted family and relationship drama mixed with a rich, mysterious backstory that could be explored and debated.
  • several people noted that everything in Bree's room seemed to come from Target
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  • • In return, she had to stay home as much as possible and wear sunglasses and a hat when she went out. For Rose, it was a dream come true – she was a working actress. She just couldn't tell anyone.
• 

  dracmere
  • $500 a week to play Bree full time
  • But the fans – raised on the unreality of reality TV and with the role-playing
    ethos of the Web – seemed to take the revelation in stride.
• 25 Sep 07
  

  Bill Wolff
  • everal people noted that everything in Bree's room seemed to come from Target. (One viewer annotated each item with its SKU number.) Could it be, one fan wondered, that the whole thing was an elaborate ad campaign for the retailer?
  • Meanwhile, the online celebrity started spilling over into the real world. Rose was browsing for a book in Santa Monica after "My Parents Suck …" was posted and noticed two girls watching her closely. That night, Amanda received an email from a fan: "Hi Bree. My friend and I thought we saw you at the Barnes & Noble in Santa Monica, but it couldn't be you, right?"

Public Stiky Notes

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  meyerb15 on 2008-02-13
  How did people catch on to watching this video?
• 
  Kristin Pucca on 2008-04-17
  Wow, even though something is deleted there are still traces of it that can be retrieved and viewed. This is a little bit creepy that this can be done. The internet may not be as safe as it appears. I don't trust it, and reading this is making me trust it less and less.

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